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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  of the Rubins Lab at MIT. Her lab hosts a number of undergraduate UROP ... number of MIT grads in space at one time, though -- last November, 4 MIT alums were in space at the same time: They are 4 of 34 MIT alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I ... found out that a long-lost childhood friend of mine was now a student at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  vulnerable and affectionate, loving and open, bold and daring.  At the end of ... very isolated at school. It was there for me and grounded me in some of ... . Growth Speaking of lingering trauma at the places that used to mean the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  all of the courses at MIT are numbered, but where do we get off throwing ... count towards your degree in any of a number of majors. Courses designated ... and dread. 2.009 is sort of the be-all and end-all of a Course 2 degree

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... Chancellor at the University of Cambridge is the Duke of Edinburgh. I recently

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... the live webcast of Wolfram Alpha going live. Be here tonight at 8 PM ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  former research director of the climate policy and research program at the ... conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science ... in conversations at the intersection of race, (health) science &

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  could be good at one of them. And I don't know if I'll ever be good at ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  perfect idea. None of us really cooked for ourselves at the moment ... wrong but existing address. I’ll use fake e-mails for the sake of privacy ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  at the process of bringing our collective baby, Richard III to the ... as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for ... paintings by one of the inmates. I remember staring at those pictures, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  humanistic academia. At a certain level of analysis, we're a little like oil ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... technical field. A badge of honor at the Institute, e.g., "Nerd Pride". (2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and ... Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... to privacy," said one Sox official. "Most of our pitchers go there at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  kid, and I heard it again recently at a performance of a bunch of short ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  took of all the awesome stuff at Maker Faire: At the entrance LEGO had ... iron with thermite: Lots of folks at Maker Faire love bicycles. There ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011